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Internet 2008 in Numbers

By CircleID Reporter
  • January 22, 2009, 10:32 pm PST
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In a blog post today, Royal Pingdom has posted a variety of statistical answers to questions for 2008 such as: How many websites were added? (A: 31.5 million) How many emails were sent? (A: 210 billion per day) How many blog posts were published? (A: 329 million)

Other numbers include total number of Internet users in the world which, according to June 2008 data, is recorded at 1,463,632,361 with Asia having the highest percentage of users (39.5%) followed by Europe as the second largest (26.3%) and North America as the third (17%).

Numbers have been gathered using a wide variety of sources from around the Web.

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